§ Lieut.-Colonel POWNALLasked the hon. Member for the Pollok Division of Glasgow, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, what reductions it has been found possible to effect in the number of night watchmen employed by his Department, which was shown in the Geddes Report as being 280 now compared with 17 in August, 1914, supplemented then by 44 commissionaires?
§ Sir J. GILMOURSince the Geddes Report was issued the number of night watchmen has been reduced from 280 to 213. The actual decrease is 93, as 26 of the men now included are engaged in this building and at the Record Office where Metropolitan police constables were previously employed.